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Feb 17, 2015

Herb of the Week - Purslane

I am setting this up on a separate blog that will eventually be an easy to use resource down the line.
So click the link below to see it uses and bookmark the blog for weekly installments.

I will be posting an herb of the week every Tuesday. I find it is easy
to remember things like this when you get them in small doses.

Purslane

This evasive weed as a smooth, reddish,
mostly prostrate stems and alternate leaves clustered at stem joints
and ends. A yellow flowers have five regular parts and are up to 6
mm wide. Depending upon rainfall, the flowers appear at anytime during
the year. The flowers open singly at the center of the leaf cluster
for only a few hours on sunny mornings. Seeds are formed in a tiny pod,
which opens when the seeds are mature. Purslane has a taproot with fibrous
secondary roots and is able to tolerate poor, compacted soils and drought.